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County picks stucco for O’Donnell facade

Published: April 28, 2011
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By Jack Zemlicka Milwaukee County is shedding the metal and glass facade for the O’Donnell Park parking garage and the extra $1.2 million cost of the panels. The decision is in keeping with new County Executive Chris Abele’s veto of the panels, which the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors approved April 21. Some supervisors, who [...]

County picks steel panels for O’Donnell Park (UPDATE)

Published: April 21, 2011
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By Jack Zemlicka Milwaukee County is sticking with steel panels for the facade work on the O’Donnell Park parking garage despite the objections of incoming County Executive Chris Abele. Abele spokesperson Brandon Lorenz confirmed Abele opposed a steel facade replacing defective paneling because it would cost the county more money than simply repairing the cement [...]

New facade bids on tap for O’Donnell

Published: February 25, 2011
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By Jack Zemlicka • O’Donnell Park Parking Structure Repairs, Project No. O114-11416, 910 E. Michigan St., Milwaukee • O’Donnell Park Parking Structure Improvements, Project No. O114-11415-2, 910 E. Michigan St., Milwaukee • AWARDED: O’Donnell Park Parking Structure Facade Removal, Project No. O114-11415, 910 E. Michigan St., Milwaukee Purely aesthetic panels could cost Milwaukee County an [...]

Vista offers low bid for O’Donnell rebuild

Published: February 9, 2011
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By Marie Rohde Milwaukee-based Vista Design & Construction LLC’s $345,000 bid is the apparent low offering to rebuild the O’Donnell Park parking garage, said Jack Takerian, Milwaukee County director of transportation and public works. Five other companies bid on the project, but a Minneapolis contractor submitted its bid two minutes late and then withdrew the [...]

Innovation Park payment extension could stall Milwaukee-area projects (UPDATE)

Published: January 24, 2011
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By Joe Lanane Development could trump $5 million in maintenance projects if Milwaukee County agrees to delay payment on a $13.55 million land sale. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Real Estate Foundation is seeking a two-year deadline extension on its second $5 million payment to acquire county-owned property in Wauwatosa. The 89-acre tract of land will [...]

Philanthropist pushes lakefront public museum

Published: January 21, 2011
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By Joe Lanane The O’Donnell Park garage should be razed and replaced by a new Milwaukee Public Museum and parking structure, according to philanthropist Michael Cudahy. “O’Donnell Park is a piece of garbage, and it’s been trouble ever since it’s been built,” Cudahy said. “It was a terrible idea in the first place to have [...]

Engineers wrestle with O’Donnell conflicts

Published: December 7, 2010
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By Joe Lanane Steve Roloff, expert witness, could trump Steve Roloff, chief operating officer, when weighing whether his engineering firm has a chance to work on the O’Donnell Park parking structure. Roloff, COO of Madison-based Arnold & O’Sheridan Inc., said the firm regularly works on parking structures such as downtown Milwaukee’s O’Donnell. But, he said, [...]

O’Donnell investigation stays in county

Published: July 29, 2010
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Three Milwaukee County supervisors on Thursday failed to force a public debate over whether there should be an independent investigation of the O’Donnell Park parking structure collapse.

Engineers investigate cause of parking structure collapse (VIDEO)

Published: June 25, 2010
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By Sean Ryan Milwaukee County officials are combing the O’Donnell Park parking structure and its construction records to find out why a 27,000-pound precast concrete panel broke off the building Thursday, killing a boy and injuring two others. A subcontractor that Jack Takerian, county director of Transportation, Public Works and Transit, refused to name installed [...]

Overstimulated cities return road money

Published: May 3, 2010
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By Sean Ryan Low bids for local road projects are reversing the flow of stimulus payments as cities and counties kick surplus federal money back to the state. “I don’t know what they’re going to be doing with that money this year because I know that there are a lot of projects that are being [...]

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